Nassos Stylianou

I'm a journalist with BBC News, specialising in data-driven journalism, finding stories from complex datasets and visualising them online. Have been editorial lead on a number of very successful and award-winning BBC projects. You can get in touch by email at [email protected] or through any of the social media platforms below.

A real recovery?

October 2017, BBC News

Have house prices actually gone up in your neighbourhood? A deep dive into whether house prices have receovered since the 2007 financial crisis, analysing more than 8million property transactions.

Things I did: Story planning, reporting, data analysis and production. Used R to clean and analyse a dataset containing all residential property transactions in England and Wales since 2007.
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What's left of Mosul?

August 2017, BBC News

Is anything left of Mosul?: Collaborated with colleagues to show, using maps and graphics, the widespread destruction of the Iraqi city following the brutal fight against ISIS.

Things I did: Worked on the story concept and planning, collated data and carried out data analysis and some map-making. Used in-house map-making tools and QGIS.
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Coffee under threat

June 2017, BBC News

Will coffee taste worse as the planet warms? A feature examining the impact that climate change could have on coffee, both in terms of quality and price.

Things I did: Story planning, writing and reporting, data analysis, map-making and production. Used Excel, QGIS and processed Landsat satellite imagery using command line tools.
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Trump's wall

June 2017, BBC News

Six reasons Trump’s wall may not actually get built: Worked with a colleague to look at the obstacles President Trump will have to dodge to build a cross-country barrier.

Things I did: Data extraction, analysis and map-making. Used R to scrape online data, used QGIS and GDAL to make maps and processed Landsat satellite imagery with command line tools.
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Election results mapped

June 2017, BBC News

The 2017 UK general election in graphics: A BBC data team analysis of a stunning general election looking at how the UK's political geography has changed.

Things I did: Story planning, reporting, data analysis and map-making. Used R to write scripts to clean and analyse election result data and QGIS to produce maps.
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Olympic body match

August 2016, BBC News

Who is your Olympic body match? Interactive calculator where by entering their height, weight and age, users can find out which athlete taking part in Rio 2016 they are most like.

Things I did: Story planning and data analysis. Used R to write scripts to query and test the Olympic athelete dataset.
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Buried without a name

May 2016, BBC News

The untold story of Europe's drowned migrants: A BBC investigation quantifying the number of people who died crossing the Mediterranean and buried in unmarked graves.

Things I did: Story planning, reporting, data journalism, map-making and project management. Used Excel, QGIS, GDAL and processed Landsat satellite imagery using command line tools.
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Life in Syria

March 2016, BBC News

Life and death in Syria: Worked with colleagues to examine what life is like for the millions who live in the country five years into a devastating war. Won best data vis at the European Digital Media Awards 2017.

Things I did: Story planning, reporting, data analysis and visualisation for two of the five sections of this story. Mainly used Excel for any data analysis.
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Will a robot take your job?

July 2015, BBC News

Interactive calculator where users can find out the likelihood of their job becoming automated. Project Featured in the 'Hello, Robot.' exhibition at the MAK museum in Vienna.

Things I did: Story planning, writing, data analysis and project management. Used a combination of Excel and R for data analysis.
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A Greek tragedy

July 2015, BBC News

How bad are things for the people of Greece? Feature a colleague and I worked on looking at how the ongoing recession is affecting the lives of the people in Greece.

Things I did: Story planning, writing, reporting and interviewing, data analysis and visualisation.
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You vs Ronaldo

February 2015, BBC News

How long would it take to earn a footballer’s salary? Interactive page allowing users to compare their wages to those of global football stars. Won best data vis at the European Digital Media Awards 2016.